Wow there is some serious animus going on. I totally missed the David Letterman controversy because I was off doing other things. Apparently he insulted Alex Rodriquez by suggesting that he’d be interested in one of Sarah Palin’s daughters. Actually he made a joke about her getting knocked-up at the Yankees game. Was the joke [...]
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Now while the fight for marriage equality for LGBTs doesn’t directly affect me in my daily life it certainly bothers my sensibilities. One of the major arguments about the passage of Prop 8 in California is how it discriminates against a marginalized group. Who has determined the criteria for marginalization? There has also been this [...] When musician M.I.A. announced on Twitter that she was appearing on Real Time with Bill Maher I was looking forward to the interview. I had been pleasantly surprised by the quality of the interview with Tavis Smiley which occurred in February shortly before she gave birth to her first child. I felt confident that Maher’s [...] What is with these women who CHOOSE to get pregnant, conduct expensive experiments with their fertility, have multiple births and beg for public attention and financial recompense? There is no “motherhood gene”!!! It’s all a choice and if you chose it don’t make a career complaining about it!! Nadya Suleman has only now just [...] So I’ve been sitting on this for nearly two months. With the conversations that have taken place the past week or so I feel I’m somewhat better able to articulate my thoughts on this. This is an exploration of ideas versus a set standard of do’s and don’ts. There’s a political component at stake where [...] I was having a brief conversation with a magazine publisher that features hip-hop refer to Kanye as a “positive” rap artist. Hmm, well I’m going to have to ask for a test on that one, unless we’re going to say positively sexist! I know, I know the song is about an ALLEGED gold digger. [...] I’d like to have a conversation about our failure to properly recognize the musical and cultural contributions of some of our most talented and innovative recording artists. It is no coincidence that they are usually female….and African-American. Quick: name a current female MC or rap artist who’s currently in the Top Ten…Twenty….Thirty?. [...] Will we be eulogizing the death of the “Negro” as we once knew ourselves? Every day a little bit of our heritage is being tossed on the garbage heap and mocked at as some of us walk – no run – away from our “Blackness”. We think we’re freeing ourselves from a life of [...] I’m continuing the essay I began with yesterday’s post. In picking up on the concern writer Stephen Talty expresses for how his bi-racial son will navigate his heritage he says the following: Raising Asher has made me more thoughtful about these things, and more driven too. But it has also made me harder in [...]  |
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